Y News C O R O N A - N O R C O

F A M I L Y Y M C A

Community events: April 11, Color-A-Thon for

Simple Acts of Care and Kindness (SACK) at Dos Lagos (see page 5)

April 18, Day of a Child at Corona City Park

April 25, Helping Hands Service Project : City Park, Jurupa and the Main Y Sites (see page 6)

Admin Office meetings:

April 6, Management staff

meeting.

Parent meetings:

Merrill: Tues., April 21 @

6pm. Topic: Nap SACC

Program Nutritionist,

guest speaker is Cheri

Blucher

Home Gardens: Tues.,

April 21 @ 6pm. Topic:

Health & Safety Concerns

Main Y: Thurs., April 23 @

8:30am. Topic: Nap SACC

Program Nutritionist.

Job Openings:

Van Driver

*Passenger endorsement

*Class B driver license

Teacher Aides

*Jurupa Center

*Merrill Center

*Must have 6 units

Teacher

*City Park Center

*Merrill Center

*Teacher’s Permit (CA) required

*1 yr. experience with desired

results and environmental

rating scale

Download job application from

the Y website: and return to

Main Y, Attention: Monica

Hunter, Programs Director.

www.ymcacornor.org

A P R I L 6 , 2 0 1 5

WHAT WHEN TIME WHERE COST

CPR/1st Aid Class Sat, April 11, 2015 8:30am Main Y Call 800-325-4468 for pricing info

Cardio Fitness Monday 11:00am - 12:00pm Y Community Center

$5 per class

Core Workout with Pilates/yoga

Thursday 9:30am - 10:30am Y Community Center

$5 per class

Health & Safety Class

Sat, May 2, 2015 8:30am Main Y Call 800-325-4468 for pricing info

Karate Monday & Wednesdays

Beginners 6:15pm - 7:00pm

Int/Advanced 7:15pm - 8:00pm

Call Main Y to register

Cost $45 Member, $55 Non members. Cost is per month.

Music Lessons One-on-one lessons drums, piano and

for woodwinds/brass, guitar.

Call Main Y 951-736

to register -9622

Youth Sports - Flag Football

Starts: April 21st Tuesday & Thursday

Ages 4-6 6:15pm - 7:00pm

Ages 7-10 7:15pm - 8:00pm

Call Main Y to register

Cost $45 Member, $55 Non members

Zumba Mon, Tues, Wed, Fri 10:00am - 11:00am

6:00pm - 7:00pm

Y Community Center

$3 per class

Please like us on

www.facebook.com/YMCACorNor And find out what’s going on

behind the scenes.

It’s the best way to keep up to date with what’s going on at the

Corona-Norco Family YMCA!

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Home Gardens This week we are working on Community Helper. We will be doing art projects this week. The children will draw or make people in their community who are special to them. They will also make a small post office, classroom, or a police station.

For literacy and social skills the students will write about what they are making as a team or by themselves and why they chose to make the community person and building. We will use math literacy by counting the items needed to make the art projects.

We will play outside with the balls, hats, bikes, legs, and jump ropes.

Homework this week will include activities, reading and learning site words.

On Friday, April 3rd, we had a Spring Egg Hunt. We had so many eggs and all the children had so much fun. A big thank you to all our families who donated the eggs and goodies for the plastic eggs. On Thursday, the children dyed the eggs for the hunt. This week will continue our study about clothes.

Miss Bousha’s class will be talking about "What do you know about clothes?" They will add a clothes line in the Dramatic Play area, then they will pretend to do laundry and hang it up to dry. They will be reading the book "Caps for Sale" and then create their own cap.

City Park Miss Irene's class will be talking about "How do we take care of our clothes? They will be making a washing machine and dryer with large cardboard boxes. Then, the students will create their own washer and dryer. In the discovery center, they will try to find out which type of soap makes the best bubbles: liquid, bubbles, or powder. We will let you know next week what we find out.

We will end this week with a crazy hat and hair day on Friday! There will be pictures next week. Have a great week.

Teen Center

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Monday-Friday homework help. Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s 3:30-4:30 Tutoring This week, the Teens will be making Glass catchers, Paper Mache crafts, Tie Dye shirts, Duct tape wallets, Mosaic art, and we are going to enjoy a fun cooking project they will be making Lasagna with salad and fruit kabobs. To end our

fun week we are playing Just Dance and fun game of team charades and Apples to Apples.

Last week we heard a speaker on Rethink Your Drink and the teens learned about substitutes for soda. On page 6 there is an article that talks about what they learned.

Main Y Pre- School Part Day, Full Day: This week we will be studying

trees and nature by investigating how trees and plants grow. Children will be given seeds to plant. We will be patiently watching them grow these coming next weeks. We will also be observing the plants and trees at our school and completing an experiment using celery to see how plants drink/absorb water. Calvert: Coming up next week, we will be exploring what grows on trees. The students will plant in an outdoor environment. They will have a variety of flower, vegetable, and fruit seeds to choose from to plant. Through book exploration we will learn what different kinds of flowers and fruits grow from trees. The students will be given the opportunity to fully familiarize themselves with what grows on trees by craft making. We will be having cooking and sensory experiments with yogurt and fruits.

Harada THEME: SPRING TIME This is our second week working with activities related with spring. This week we are researching some flowers that we see in spring. We will learn when is the best time to plant, what kind of care do they need, how to make the garden bloom ,and how to avoid plants that are poisonous. We are going to make 3-dimensional Daffodils and 3-dimensional popcorn. We will use lavender paint to make Tulips, Lilacs, and Iris. On Friday we will have game day.

Last week we finished our new gate which allows better protection to the families we serve. There are some pictures on page 7.

We will focus on the letters D, N and S and the letters sounds. School Age: This week in School Age, we will be studying everything about gardens. With Spring, comes the excitement of flowers and gardening. Gardens can be beautiful, purposeful, useful and therapeutic. We will study all types of gardens and the care it takes for the seeds, roots, stems and flower. We will ask the question of why gardens are used so often in famous paintings such as Claude Monet’s. We will learn about Monet and his famous paintings of gardens and ponds by painting his famous lily pond painting. We will study what grows from the garden that we can eat and even save for future use!

Happy Spring.

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Merrill

Jurupa

First 5 Toddlers - This week we will be working on the theme of bugs and insects. We will be discussing the different types of bugs and insects and do activities that help to promote the theme by doing an “I Spy” activity when we are outside. Some of the other things we will be doing include a leaf and grass collage, finger painting, stamp painting, and a goop discovery activity.

State Toddlers – Tie Dye will be our way of introducing colors. We will be looking at the color of flowers around the school. Bottle spray painting and colorful bubbles will be explored with children. A collage with tissue paper, coffee filter, spray bottles and glue will be our craft. We will finish the week by tie dying a shirt.

Preschool – Classroom 1 we will continue the study on buildings and focus this week on who builds the buildings and what kind of tools do they use. Our books this week will focus on buildings and we will use flannel board pieces to re-tell the story. We will demonstrate some tools through pictures and children will create blue prints.

Preschool – Classroom 2 we will conclude the study

of trees. The children will be discussing the life cycle of the trees from seed to the tree’s end. What makes the tree grow and how does a big tree grow from a small seed.

Preschool – We will be studying trees and children will be tree rub coloring, also dying white carnations. The children will look at what size trees are around the center.

School age - We will be learning about the spring season and the children will be planting this week. The children will continue art projects of rainbows and spring. They will be playing games in small groups such as dominoes, checkers etc.. The children will start back with homework as spring break is over.

We will begin our study on Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Our investigation on Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle is a study about materials that can be recycled and reused. We will ask the children if they know what materials are recycled and how we can reduce wasting materials. We will ask the children open ended questions and help them learn about materials that can be recycled.

The children will explore with a variety of materials to recycle. They will describe what materials they see at home that are recyclable, using complete sentences. The children will learn about how recycling is important and why we should recycle.

In addition, we will read the books from Judith Stamper “Sam Helps Recycle” from Nancy Williams

“Don’t Lose It- Reuse It!” and from Lisa Matsumoto “The adventures of Gary & Harry a Tale of Two

Turtles”. The children will be able to learn new

vocabulary words such as, trash, bottles, cans,

boxes, pencils, rubber tires, old, deep, tubes, and plastic.

Welcome to Our Y

NEW EMPLOYEES

Carla McSwain 02-03-2015: Main Y

Nayeli Garcia 02-16-2015: Merrill

Margaret Faleafine 02-18-2015: Main Y

Rebekah Foltz 03-02-2015: Jurupa Valley

Yesenia Beltran 03-02-2015: Merrill

Rebecca Spiegel 03-16-2015: Administration

Let us all welcome our newest staff to the

Corona Norco Family YMCA

Youth & Government

YMCA Birthday Corner

Susa Der - April 29

Guadalupe Gaeta - April 21

Yvonee Leon - April 28

Elena Morales - April 9

Ana Narvez - April 17

Karina Oblea - April 10

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C.A.T. at the Y.M.C.A. Each week, we will include pictures of our students at the various sites

P A G E 6 “Rethink Your Drink” On Thursday, April 2nd, at our Y Community Center, our teens and Youth and Government delegates participated in a presentation from Sheryl Uribe, Laura Moreno, Jane Ngo (Bachelor of Science Nursing Student), and Melissa Repato (RN Barlow Respiratory Hospital) called “Rethink Your Drink.” They educated our students on the Center for Disease Control Guide to strategies for reducing the Consumption of Sugar Sweetened Beverages. They introduced some suggestions you can make to reduce the amount of sugar intake in diet. They also discussed beverages such as sodas, explained the risk and danger of what sodas and energy drinks can do to your body and health. As well, they discussed the importance of alternative drinks that are better for your health. The teens and Youth and Government delegates really enjoyed the presentation at the end they had a quiz and were given prizes.

Youth & Government April 11, 2015 Y Community Service: Color-A-Thon for S.A.C.K.: Help with set up & clean up

We had a great year and look forward to starting up again in August!

If you would like to speak with the Y & G delegates or assist them with their research, please contact Lorena Gomez at (951) 736-9622 or gomez@ymcacornor.org

Merrill Center City Park Center

Merrill Center

City Park Center

Merrill Center

P A G E 7

This week we got a call from Thoro Packaging to donate printed popcorn boxes for our Corona-Norco Family YMCA. We will be receiving the in-kind donation of 2,500 printed popcorn boxes. Thank you Thoro Packaging!

We are proud supporters of buying local! Every week we get a delivery from the Griffith Family Farms of oranges so that we ensure our students are eating fresh fruit daily.

We would like to continue to acknowledge to donations from Pizza Hut and Starbucks. Our families are thankful for this weeks donations.

We are always working on improving our sites to protect our families we serve. This week at the Harada site, the new fence was finished! Isn’t is beautiful?

Communication Corner On Saturday, April 25th this organization, JustServe Helping Hands/The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and their volunteers will be at the City Park, Jurupa, and Main Y sites to assist in clearing out and organizing the storage containers/areas. Key staff will be at each site to assist and to inventory everything in each container/area.

The main contacts from JustServe are Shandra Carlsen for the Corona area and Curt Seymore for the Jurupa group. This group has a day every April that they have volunteers serve different agencies/projects in their area.

Home Depot Community Project has approved a grant to renovate the existing soccer stadium at the Main Y Facility. The in kind donation gift is worth $50,000 plus in-kind labor to do the project in two days: April 29 and 30. The Home Depot Team will provide materials, supplies, and labor through their Team Depot staff volunteers.

P A G E 8

Zumba Come join the fun in our Zumba classes! Only one hour long!

Mon, Tues, Wed & Fri at 10am and 6pm. Only $3 per class.

Call the Y Community Center for more info: (951) 280-0783

Core Workout with Pilates & yoga Come join the fun in our Core Workout with Pilates & yoga classes! Only one hour long!

Thursdays at 9:30am. Only $5 per class. Call the Y Community Center for more info: (951) 280-0783

Cardio Fitness

Looking to get fit and a group to join? Come join our Cardio Fitness classes!

Mondays at 11am. Only $5 per class Call the Y Community Center for more info: (951) 280-0783

Soccer

As our season comes to a close, we will celebrate a great six weeks. On Thursday, April 9th we

will have our last night on the field.

Flag Football

Coming up! Register now to join the fun! Season will start April 21st!

Tuesdays & Thursdays : Ages 4-6 6:15pm-7:00pm Ages 7-10 7:15pm-8:00pm

Call the Main Y to schedule: (951) 736-9622

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Karate

Location: YMCA Main Office:1331 River Road, Corona, CA 92880 Cost: Y-Members $35.00/mo Non-Members $45.00/mo Classes available for Adults and Children age 5 & up! Call the Main Y to schedule: (951) 736-9622

CORONA-NORCO

FAMILY YMCA

1331 River Road

Corona, CA 92880

If you have questions or suggestions about this newsletter,

please email Rebecca Spiegel at spiegel@ycornor.org.

Phone: 951-736-1415

Fax: 951-736-6759

Website: ymcacornor.org

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www.facebook.com/YMCACorNor

Music Lessons Private music lessons taught by professional musicians/instructors with performance and teaching experience. 1/2 Hour Lessons $20 Members $25 Non Members.

Call the Main Y to schedule: (951) 736-9622

Adventure Guides April 12th: Spring Party 2:00pm-5:00pm at Wildrose Ranch Community Park

April 14th: Board Meeting at the Main Y

April 28: Base Camp at 7pm at the Main Y

If you are interested in this program, contact Lorena Gomez at (951) 736-1415 or gomez@ymcacornor.org